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Ninth week. How the Fuel Value of Food has been Determined. Meaning 

 of calorie. The 100-caloric portion, its use in determining a daily or weekly 

 dietary. Standard dietary as determined by Atwater. Comparison of 

 standards of Chittenden and Voit with those of Atwater. 



Tenth week. Study of Pupil's Dietary. Planning ideal meals. Individual 

 dietaries for one day required from each pupil. Discussions and corrections. 

 The family dietary. Relation to cost. 



Eleventh week. Digestion. The digestive system in the frog and in man com- 

 pared. Drawings of each. Glands and enzymes. Internal secretions and 

 their importance. Demonstration of glandular tissues. Experiment to 

 show digestion of starch in mouth. 



Twelfth week. Digestion Continued. Digestion of white of egg by gastric 

 juice. Digestion of starch with pancreatic fluid. Functions of pancreatic 

 juice. Microscopic examination of emulsion. Reasons for digestion. 

 Part played by osmosis. Demonstration of osmosis. Non-osmosis of non- 

 digested foods, comparison between osmosable qualities of starch and grape 

 sugar. 



Thirteenth week. Absorption. Where and how foods are absorbed. The 

 structure of a villus explained. Course taken by foods after absorption. 

 Function of liver. Blood making the result of absorption. Composition of 

 blood, red and colorless corpuscles, plasma, blood plates, antibodies. 

 Microscopic drawing of corpuscles of frog's and man's blood. 



Fourteenth week. Circulation of Blood. The heart and lungs of frog demon- 

 strated. Heart of man a force pump, explain with use of force pump. 

 Demonstration of beef's heart. Circulation and changes of blood in various 

 parts of body. Work of cells with reference to blood made clear. Capillary 

 circulation (demonstration of circulation in tadpole's tail or web of frog's 

 foot). 



Fifteenth week. Respiration and Excretion. Necessity for taking of oxygen 

 to cells and removal of wastes from cells. Part played by blood and lymph. 

 Mechanics of breathing (use of experiments). Changes of air and blood in 

 lungs (experiments). Best methods of ventilation (experiments). Elimi- 

 nation of wastes from blood by lungs, skin, and kidneys. Cell respiration. 



Sixteenth week. Hygiene of Organs of Excretion, especially care of skin. The 

 general structure and functions of the central nervous system. Sensory 

 and motor nerves. Reflexes, instincts, habits. Habit formation, importance 

 of right habits. Rules for habit formation. Habit-forming drugs and other 

 agents. Lecture. 



Seventeenth, eighteenth, nineteenth weeks. Civic Hygiene and Sanitation. 

 Hygiene of special senses, eye and ear. A well citizen an efficient citizen. 

 Public health is purchasable. Improvement of environment a means of 

 obtaining this. Civic hygiene and sanitation. Cleaning up neighborhood, 

 inquiry into home and street conditions. Fighting the fly. Conditions of 

 milk and water supply. Relation of above to disease. Work of Board of 

 Health, etc. Review and Examinations. 



